You do not need to know how bikes work

How it starts

1. Come to an orientation. They run the first Sunday of every month at 1pm and take about 90 minutes. Sign up below or just turn up.
2. Shadow a shift. Your first two or three shifts you work alongside someone experienced. You will fix flats, adjust derailleurs, and learn where everything lives.
3. Pick a lane. Once you are comfortable, you can stay on the floor, join the refurb crew, or take on something that is not wrenching at all.

The commitment

One shift a month is enough to be a real part of this. Most regulars do one shift a week, three to four hours. There is no minimum, no contract, and no guilt if life gets busy for a few months — this is not a job and we are not going to treat it like one.

Volunteers get shop access outside open hours, free use of tools, and 50% off used parts. That is not payment, it is just what makes sense.

Not a mechanic? Good.

A bike shop is maybe 60% bikes. The rest is everything below, and we are chronically short of people on all of it:

• Greeting people at the door and getting them onto a stand
• Sorting and stripping donated bikes for parts
• Photographing and listing bikes for sale
• Grant writing and bookkeeping
• Teaching classes, especially in Spanish
• Updating this website

What we ask

Show up when you say you will, or tell us you cannot. Read and follow the code of conduct. Be patient with people who are frustrated with a machine that is frustrating. That is the whole list.

Volunteers who work directly with youth programs need a background check, which we pay for and arrange.